To cease or discontinue a use or activity, but excluding temporary or short-term interruptions to a use or activity during periods of remodeling, maintaining, or otherwise improving or rearranging a facility, or during normal periods of vacation or seasonal closure.

Adjacent, adjoining and contiguous to. It may also mean having a lot line in common with a right-of-way or easement, or with a physical improvement such as a street, waterline, park, or open space.

A means of approaching or entering a property, or the ability to traverse a property (such as in the use of the phrase "pedestrian access easement").

A subordinate building incidental to the main structure.

Living quarters either attached or detached from the principal residence and used as an accessory use without renting or leasing as a residence by either guests or persons employed to provide domestic services to the occupants of the principal residence.

A use that is clearly and customarily incidental and secondary to the principal use of land or building(s), and that is located upon the same lot, and that does not change the character thereof.

A facility that provides services under an adult day care program on a daily or regular basis, but not overnight, to four or more elderly or handicapped persons who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the owner of the facility. Adult day services centers (also referred to as adult day care centers) must be licensed by the Texas Department of Human Services or its successor.

Land where the production, keeping, or maintenance for sale, lease, or personal use of plants and animals useful to man, including, forages and sod crops, grains and seed crops, dairy animals, poultry and livestock, including, but not limited to, ostriches, emus, buffalos, beef cattle, sheep, goats, mules, horses, and ponies.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing air-conditioning (except motor vehicle) and warm air furnace equipment or (2) manufacturing commercial and industrial refrigeration and freezer equipment. Uses include air-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing, humidifying equipment (except portable) manufacturing, air-conditioning compressors (except motor vehicle) manufacturing, refrigerated counter and display cases manufacturing, air-conditioning condensers and condensing units manufacturing, refrigerated drinking fountains manufacturing, dehumidifiers (except portable electric) manufacturing, snow making machinery manufacturing, heat pumps manufacturing, soda fountain cooling and dispensing equipment manufacturing.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following:

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing aircraft parts or auxiliary equipment (except engines and aircraft fluid power subassemblies) or (2) developing and making prototypes of aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment. Auxiliary equipment includes such items as crop dusting apparatus, armament racks, in-flight refueling equipment, and external fuel tanks.

A public Right-of-Way, not intended to provide the primary means of access to abutting lots, that is used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or sides of properties otherwise abutting on a street.

A gravel, asphalt, or concrete driveway.

A privately-owned facility for the dispatch, storage, and maintenance of emergency medical care vehicles.

An amusement enterprise wholly enclosed in a building that is treated acoustically so that noise generated by the enterprise is not perceptible at the bounding property line and including, but not limited to, a climbing wall center or billiard parlor.

An amusement enterprise offering entertainment or games of skill to the general public for a fee or charge wherein any portion of the activity takes place in the open including, but not limited to, a golf driving range, archery range and miniature golf course.

The following are antenna support structures.

An establishment offering for sale, within a building, articles such as glass, china, furniture or similar furnishing and decorations that have value and significance as a result of age, design and sentiment.

A room or suite of rooms in a multi-family residence arranged, designed, or occupied as a place of residence by a single-family, individual, or group of individuals.

Generally a store where household appliances are sold, rented, or leased.

The person or entity responsible for the submission of an application. The applicant must be the actual owner of the property for which an application is submitted, or shall be a duly authorized representative of the property owner. Also see developer.

The package of materials, including, but not limited to, an application form, plat, completed checklist, tax certificate, construction plans, special drawings or studies, and other informational materials, that is required by the City to initiate City review and approval of a development project.

The written form (as provided by and as may be amended by the Planning Division Manager) that is filled out and executed by the applicant and submitted to the City along with other required materials as a part of an application.

An office space occupied by a U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, Coast Guard, or Merchant Marine recruiting center where phone calls are made, letters are written and mailed, and possible recruits are interviewed and enlisted in one of the service branches.

An institution for the collection, display, or distribution of objects of art, and that is sponsored by a public or quasi-public agency, and is open to the general public.

An establishment within a building offering for sale articles such as painting supplies, picture framing, brushes, artist easels, canvas, or similar supplies for various art forms.

The visual variation to both the height and depth dimensions of a building through the use of materials, colors, fenestration and details.

An establishment used for the preparation, display, and sale of individually crafted artwork, jewelry, furniture, sculpture, pottery, leather-craft, hand-woven articles, and related items.

A facility operated by a business or non-profit organization where ill or elderly people are provided with lodging and meals, with or without nursing care.

A facility that provides collision repair services, including body frame straightening, replacement of damaged parts, and painting.

See Outside Storage.

A business providing sales, display and service of new and used motorized vehicles, including motorcycles, RVs, and boats—not including semi-truck or heavy truck sales.

Stores selling new automobile parts, tires, and accessories.

See Outside Storage.

Storing or renting of automobiles and light trucks.

A facility for the general repair, rebuilding, or reconditioning of engines, motor vehicles, or trailers, or providing collision services, including body, frame, or fender repair, and overall painting, where all work is conducted inside the building.

See Outside Storage.

A facility for routine automobile services or minor repairs, such as tire services, quick-lubes, batteries, with all work being conducted inside the building and within the same day.

See Outside Storage.

A bail bond service or bondsman is any person or corporation that will act as a surety and pledge money or property as bail for the appearance of a criminal defendant in court.

A shop that sells baked goods, such as pastry items and donuts.

A freestanding building, with or without a drive-up window, for the custody, loan, or exchange of money; for the extension of credit; and for facilitating the transmission of funds.

An establishment, not a restaurant, the principal activity of which is the sale and consumption on the premises of liquor, wine, beer, or any other alcoholic beverages, whether served with or without food and other refreshment.

A fixed establishment or place where one or more persons engage in the practice of barbering or cosmetology.

An owner or operator occupied residence with bedrooms providing overnight or otherwise temporary lodging for the general public for 96 hours or fewer. Typically, breakfast is the only meal served to guests.

A facility where bicycles are assembled and sold, or repaired and serviced.

A tract or parcel of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and public parks, cemeteries, railroad right-of-way, highway, stream, or corporate boundary lines.

The City's Board of Adjustment, which is established in Article VII Board of Adjustment.

A building other than a motel or hotel where, for compensation and by prearrangement for definite periods, meals or lodging are provided for three or more persons, but not to exceed eight persons.

A retail establishment that, as its primary business, engages in the sale, rental, or other charge-for-use of books, magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, postcards, videotapes, computer software, or any other printed or electronically conveyed information or media.

An establishment that engages in the business of placing liquids (soft drinks, milk, juices, etc.) in bottles made of glass or plastic.

An establishment that devotes more than 50 percent of its gross Floor Area to bowling lanes, equipment, and playing area. A bowling alley is wholly enclosed in a building that is treated acoustically so that noise generated by the enterprise is not perceptible at the bounding property line.

An industrial use that brews ales, beers, meads, and/or similar beverages on site. Large breweries are classified as a use that manufactures more than 6 million gallons of beverage annually (all beverages combined).

An industrial use that brews ales, beers, meads, and/or similar beverages on site. Regular breweries area classified as a use that manufactures less than 15,000 gallons of beverages annually (all beverages combined).

An industrial use that brews ales, beers, meads, and/or similar beverages on site. Local breweries area classified as a use that manufactures between 15,000 and 6 million gallons of beverages annually (all beverages combined).

Any structure built for support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, personal property, records or other movable property and when separated in a manner sufficient to prevent fire, each portion of such building shall be deemed a separate building.

The vertical distance from Grade Plan to the average height of the highest roof surface.

The Building Official of the City or his or her designee.

Buildings or other structures such as water towers, church steeples, utility poles and other creative locations.

A permit issued by the City before a building or structure is started, improved, enlarged or altered as proof that such action is in compliance with the City code.

The line within a property defining the minimum horizontal distance between a building or other structure and the adjacent street right-of-way/property line.

A wood shop that does layouts, cutting, fitting and assembly of residential and commercial cabinets.

A facility where a customer can have a motorcycle, automobile and light load vehicle washed in exchange for financial consideration.

A facility, typically coin operated, used by the customer to wash motorcycles, automobiles and light load vehicles.

Outdoor or indoor commercial amusement provided on a temporary basis.

A shop involving woodworking and the assembly of wood products.

A service providing meals or refreshment preparation for public or private entertainment for a fee.

A plant that manufactures cement or hydrated lime for use in the construction industry, for the making of concrete, mortar or plaster.

Property used for the interring of the dead.

Manufacturing site for ceramic and pottery goods, including dust, odor, and fume control.

An official certificate issued by the City through the Building Official (in conjunction with a Building Permit) that indicates conformance with the City's rules and regulations and that authorizes legal use of the premises.

Per Section 42.002 of the State of Texas Human Resource Code, as may be amended, "child-care facility" means a facility licensed, certified, or registered by the Department of Family and Protective Services (or its successor) to provide assessment, care, training, education, custody, treatment, or supervision for a child who is not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the owner or operator of the facility, for all or part of the 24-hour day, whether or not the facility is operated for profit or charges for the services it offers.

Per Section 42.002 of the State of Texas Human Resource Code, as may be amended, "day-care center" means a child-care facility that provides care at a location other than the residence of the director, owner, or operator of the child-care facility for seven or more children under 14 years of age for less than 24 hours a day, but at least two hours a day, three or more days a week.

Per Section 42.002 of the State of Texas Human Resource Code, as may be amended, "family home" means a home that provides regular care in the caretaker's own residence for not more than six children under 14 years of age, excluding children who are related to the caretaker, and that provides care after school hours for not more than six additional elementary school children, but the total number of children, including children who are related to the caretaker, does not exceed 12 at any given time. The term does not include a home that provides care exclusively for any number of children who are related to the caretaker.

Per Section 42.002 of the State of Texas Human Resource Code, as may be amended, "agency foster home" means a facility that provides care for not more than six children for 24 hours a day, is used only by a licensed child-placing agency or continuum-of-care residential operation, and meets department standards.

Per Section 42.002 of the State of Texas Human Resource Code, as may be amended, "group day-care home" means a child-care facility that provides care at the residence of the director, owner, or operator of the child-care facility for seven or more children under 14 years of age for less than 24 hours a day, but at least two hours a day, three or more days a week.

A business that sells a variety of cigars. It may also sell other tobacco accessories such as lighters, cigar boxes and containers, as well as cigar cutters and punches. In addition, this business may contain a lounge where persons can go to smoke cigars.

The City of Midland, Texas, together with all its governing and operating bodies.

See the Municipal Code, Title 1.

See the Municipal Code, Title 1.

See the Municipal Code, Title 1.

The person(s) so designated by the City to provide clerical and official services for the City Council. This term shall also include any designee of the City Secretary.

A building or complex of buildings used for cultural, recreational, athletic, convention, or entertainment purposes.

A business that buys bolts of cloth or fabric, cuts from patterns and sews into finished shirts, pants, dresses, and other pieces of clothing.

A street that is continuous through several residential districts and is intended as a connecting street between residential districts and Arterial Streets, highways or business districts, and that may serve both through-traffic and local access functions.

An academic institution of higher learning, accredited or recognized by the State, and offering a program or series of programs of academic study.

The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City.

A building dedicated to social or recreational activities, serving the City or neighborhood and owned and operated by the City, or by a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the health, safety, and general welfare of the City.

A community-based residential home with not more than six persons with disabilities and two supervisors residing in the home, and that otherwise meets the requirements of the Community Homes for Disabled Persons Location Act (Chapter 123 of the Human Resources Code), as may be amended.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing or assembling electronic computers, such as mainframes, personal computers, workstations, laptops, and computer servers, and computer peripheral equipment, such as storage devices, printers, monitors, input/output devices and terminals.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing concrete block and brick.

A permanent manufacturing facility for the production of concrete or asphalt.

A temporary manufacturing facility for the on-site production of concrete or asphalt during construction of a project, and to be removed when the project is completed.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing concrete pipe and other concrete products, excluding concrete block and brick.

A store that receives merchandise on consignment from individuals and places for resale.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing construction machinery, surface mining machinery, and logging equipment such as backhoes manufacturing, pile-driving equipment manufacturing, bulldozers manufacturing, portable crushing, pulverizing, and screening machinery manufacturing, construction and surface mining-type rock drill bits manufacturing, powered post hole diggers manufacturing, construction-type tractors and attachments manufacturing, road graders manufacturing, off-highway trucks manufacturing, surface mining machinery manufacturing.

A set of drawings, including paving, water, wastewater, drainage, or other required plans, submitted to the City for review in conjunction with a subdivision or a development.

A building, part of a building, or land area for the construction or outdoor or indoor storage of materials, tools, products, and vehicle fleets.

An establishment that reproduces, in printed form, individual orders from a business, profession, service, industry or government organization.

See City Council.

An area containing a golf course and club house that may include as adjunct facilities a dining room, private club, swimming pool, cabanas, tennis courts and similar service and recreational facilities for the members.

Midland County or Martin County.

An open unoccupied space other than a yard, on the same lot with a building that is bounded on three or more sides by the building.

A Credit Access Business has the meaning given that term in Section 5-11-2 of the Midland Municipal Code, as may be amended.

A public right-of-way, four feet or more in width between property lines that provides pedestrian circulation.

A short, residential street having only one vehicular access point to another street, and terminating by a vehicular turnaround.

An establishment offering to the general public facilities for dancing and entertainment for a fee.

Studio for performing arts education or similar activities.

An establishment whose business involves the placing and/or transferring of photographs, logos, or other designs onto articles of clothing, backpacks or other articles. This use applies to the manufacture of articles for wholesale purposes, only, and may include embroidery of names, logos or other text. This use generally includes catalog sales. Retail sales with display areas are permitted as a secondary use. This use typically involves the preparation of custom artwork, and is for the mass production of articles. Although silk screening is typically employed for this use, heat transfer, Direct-To-Garment (DTG) and/or similar equipment are also acceptable.

Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, paving, drainage, utilities, storage, and agricultural activities.

Retail store generally advertising reduced prices and dealing in a large variety of products including, but not limited to, clothing. May include appliances, electronics, and limited packaged food products.

An industrial use that manufactures liquor and sells distilled spirits for consumption off the premises.

Building or facility used for the storage and distribution of wholesale items/products.

An incidental use that serves as a neighborhood drop-off point for and temporary storage of donations and recoverable resources. No processing of such items occurs on-site and the site functions solely as an area of collecting materials. This facility is generally located in a shopping center parking lot or in a public/quasi-public area such as in a church and school.

An establishment for the production, display and sale of draperies and soft coverings for furniture.

A building or facility where customers can be served without leaving a vehicle.

A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.

Any building, or portion thereof, that is designed, built, rented, leased or let to be occupied as three or more dwelling units or apartments, or that is occupied as a home or place of residence by three or more families living in independent and separate housekeeping units.

A building designed for occupancy for two families living independently of each other. A two family attached unit (also known as a duplex) has a lot line dividing the building and separating the building's two dwellings units onto two separate lots.

A dwelling that is joined to another dwelling at one or more sides by a party wall or abutting separate wall, and that is designed for occupancy by one family and is located on a separate lot delineated by front, side and rear lot lines.

A dwelling designed and constructed for occupancy by one family and located on a lot or separate building tract and having no physical connection to a building located on any other lot or tract and occupied by one family.

A grant by a property owner of the use of land by the public, a corporation, entity, or persons for specific purposes.

An easement created for the purpose of providing vehicular or pedestrian access to a property.

A business involved in providing educational training or tutoring in an office environment.

The date this Zoning Ordinance, or a subsequent amendment thereto, shall become effective.

A facility or structure where electrical (high voltage) energy is generated.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing power, distribution, and specialty transformers, electric motors, generators, and motor generator sets, switchgear and switchboard apparatus, relays, and industrial controls.

A part of the electrical distribution system with the primary function to transform electrical voltage, and includes transformer stations and switching stations.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing turbines, power transmission equipment, and internal combustion engines (except automotive gasoline and aircraft).

Per Section 1001.002 of the State of Texas Occupations Code, as may be amended, "Engineer" means a person licensed to engage in the practice of engineering in the State of Texas.

See Construction Plans.

The person so designated by the City to provide oversight for and have responsibility of the City's Engineering Department. This term shall also include any designee of the Engineering Services Director.

An improved area, lighted and generally fenced, of at least 30 feet in width or length within which equestrian activities involving horse riding or driving occurs. Also includes boarding stables.

An establishment that rents large equipment and machinery such as compressors, backhoes, front-end loaders, roller compactors, generators, tree coppers, trailers, bulldozers, trenching machines, sky lifts, tractors, and dump trucks. This equipment can be self-propelled or because of its size must be hauled or towed. The equipment is generally stored outside. This use may involve the starting and running of machinery.

Business providing basic repair services for mechanical equipment.

See Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ).

A business providing services for the extermination of rodents and insects.

The unincorporated area, not a part of any other municipality, that is contiguous to the corporate limits of the City, the outer limits of which are measured from the extremities of the corporate limits of the City outward up to the distance stipulated in Chapter 42 of the Texas Local Government Code, as may be amended, according to the population of the City, and in which area the City may apply its Subdivision Regulations and other ordinances and regulations specifically provided by State law to be applied within the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ).

A person living alone, or one of the following groups of people living as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit and sharing common living, sleeping, cooking, and eating facilities:

An occasional or periodic market held in an open area or in a structure where groups of individual sellers offer for sale to the public such items as fresh produce, seasonal fruits, fresh flowers, arts and crafts items, and food and beverages (but not to include second-hand goods) dispensed from booths located on-site.

A separate document listing fees for various City Applications, prepared by the City Manager or designee and approved by City Council and which may be amended periodically.

An establishment engaged in retail sale of supplies directly related to the day-to-day activities of agricultural production.

An establishment having at least 25 percent of its gross floor area used for the sale of firearms, ammunition and ammunition components, and hunting or shooting equipment.

An area of land subject to inundation by a 100-year frequency flood as determined using standard engineering practices and generally as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) of the City.

The floor area within the inside perimeter of the exterior walls of the building under consideration, exclusive of vent shafts and courts, without deduction for corridors, stairways, closets, the thickness of interior walls, columns or other features. The floor area of a building, or portion thereof, not provided with surrounding exterior walls shall be the usable area under the horizontal projection of the roof or floor above. The gross floor area shall not include shafts with no openings or interior courts.

Retail business whose principal activity is the selling of plants that are not grown on the site and whose business is conducted within an enclosed building.

A building or plant that uses special processes, treatments or blending of foods to achieve a specified result. Not a distribution center.

A for-profit business that withdraws blood plasma from individuals.

A façade directly visible from any public street or main circulation drive and the façade used as the primary entrance to the building.

All the property abutting on one side of the street, or between two intersecting streets, measured along the street line.

A place for the storage of human bodies prior to their burial or cremation, or a building used for the preparation of the deceased for burial and the display of the deceased and ceremonies connected therewith before burial or cremation.

A business that repairs and replaces upholstery to household and office furnishings; does not include motor vehicle upholstering or repair.

A garage that has one or more walls common with the principal building on a lot or that is attached to the principal building by an enclosed porch, or passage way, the roof of which is part of an extension of the roof of the principal building and for the purpose of the height and area regulations of this Zoning Ordinance such a garage is to be considered a part of the principal building.

A garage existing separate and apart from the main building, but situated on the same lot, tract or parcel of land with the main building.

A building or portion thereof, other than a private garage, used exclusively for parking or storage of self-propelled vehicles, but with no other services provided, except facilities for washing.

Places primarily devoted to subsurface mining of gas or oil. Typical uses are gas and oil drilling operations. Regulations for Gas or Oil Well Operation can be found in Chapter 6-1 of the Midland Municipal Code.

Any lot or parcel of land or portion thereof used partly or entirely for storing or dispensing flammable liquids, combustible liquids, liquefied flammable gas, or flammable gas into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles, including any associated convenience store or service station.

Any lot or parcel of land or portion thereof used partly or entirely for storing or dispensing flammable liquids, combustible liquids, liquefied flammable gas, or flammable gas into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles. This use addresses the presence of self-service pumps only and does not include any related buildings, such as an associated convenience store or service station.

A private or public tract of land laid out with at least nine holes for playing a game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways, and hazards. A golf course includes a clubhouse and shelters as accessory uses.

A reference plane representing the average of finished ground level adjoining the building at exterior walls. Where the finished ground level slopes away from the exterior walls, the reference plane shall be established by the lowest points within the area between the building and the lot line or, where the lot line is more than six feet (1,829 mm) from the building, between the building and a point six feet (1,829 mm) from the building.

A retail establishment primarily selling prepackaged and perishable food as well as other convenience and household goods.

The use of a structure for archery or the discharging of firearms indoors for the purpose of target practice or competition.

The use of land for archery or the discharging of firearms outdoors for the purpose of target practice or competition.

A facility where members or nonmembers use equipment or space for the purpose of physical exercise.

A building or portion of a building used as a place of work for a gymnast or for instructional classes in gymnastics.

A shop where handcrafted art objects are made and displayed for sale.

See Building Height.

An area designed to be used for the landing or takeoff of helicopters including operations facilities, such as maintenance, loading and unloading, storage, fueling, or terminal facilities.

A retail shop that sells materials and supplies to persons for the making of arts and crafts, including models.

An occupation carried on in the home by a member of the occupying family without structural alterations in the building or any of its rooms, without the installation or use of machinery or additional equipment, other than that customarily incident to normal household operations, without the employment of additional persons not members of the household, without the use of a sign to advertise the occupation, without involving the conduct of a business or offering any commodity for sale on the premises, which does not cause a generation of excessive traffic in the street and which does not involve visits to the premises from the public or any members thereof in the capacity of "clients," "patients," or "customers," or similar capacities as a daily routine matter, and which does not create obnoxious noise or other conditions obnoxious to abutting residential property. A home occupation must be an incidental use to one of the principal uses permitted in the district and shall never be permitted as a principal use but only as a secondary use when otherwise in compliance with the above standards. A home occupation shall not include a barbershop, beauty shop, carpenter's shop, electrician's shop, plumber's shop, radio or TV shop, auto repairing, auto painting, furniture repairing, or sign painting, or other similar uses.

A formal nonprofit organization operating under recorded land agreements through which:

An institution where sick or injured patients are given medical or surgical treatment intended to restore them to health and an active life, and that is licensed by the State of Texas.

An institution where those persons suffering from illness, injury, deformity, deficiency or age are given care and treatment on a prolonged or permanent basis, and that is licensed by the State of Texas.

An establishment offering lodging to the transient public for compensation. A Hotel is distinguished from Motel, Motor Hotel, or Tourist Court (Definition #207) in that access to the majority of the guest rooms is through a common entrance and lobby. A Hotel is a nonresidential use.

See Manufactured Home—HUD Code under the definition of Manufactured Housing (Definition #201).

Any man-made fixed item that becomes part of or placed upon real property. See also Public Improvement.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing industrial trucks, tractors, trailers, and stackers (i.e., truck-type) such as forklifts, pallet loaders and unloaders.

Per Section 1202.003 of the State of Texas Occupations Code, as may be amended.

Per Section 1202.002 of the State of Texas Occupations Code, as may be amended:

All streets, alleys, sidewalks, storm drainage, water, and wastewater facilities, utilities, lighting, transportation, and other facilities as required by the City.

An institution offering resident treatment to alcoholic, psychiatric or narcotic patients.

A facility for manufacturing or assembling jewelry.

Kennels as described by Section 6-2-7(E) of the City Code.

A school or class of young children four to six years old that develops basic skills and social behavior by games, handicraft and other means.

An establishment that engages in research, testing or evaluation of materials or products, but not necessarily medical related.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in laminating plastics profile shapes such as plate, sheet and rod. The lamination process generally involves bonding or impregnating profiles with plastics resins and compressing them under heat.

A tract of land used for the burial of farm, residential, institutional, industrial, or commercial waste that is not hazardous, medical, or radioactive.

An industrial facility where fabrics are cleaned with substantially non-aqueous organic solvents on a commercial or wholesale basis.

Fabrics, clothes, and linens cleaning shop or drop-off/pick-up station not exceeding 6,000 square feet of Floor Area.

A laundromat facility not exceeding 2,500 square feet in Floor Area where patrons wash, dry, or dry clean clothing or other fabrics in machines operated by the patron.

A facility that uses animal hides to produce products for sale, including saddles.

A room or building for exhibiting, or an institution in charge of, a collection of books, or artistic, historical, or scientific objects.

A Local Street is a street used primarily for access to the abutting properties.

Establishments primarily engaged in providing, installing, repairing, or monitoring locks and electronic security systems.

An establishment, other than a restaurant, where liquor, wine, beer and/or other alcoholic beverage is served, dispensed or sold, whether served with or without food or other refreshment, and where facilities are offered for dancing, or dancing is permitted or invited, by the general public, or where live entertainment is provided.

See Manufactured Home—HUD Code under the definition of Manufactured Housing (Definition #201).

A single contiguous tract of land under one ownership, uninterrupted by streets, alleys or any other public space, and providing spaces for rent or lease as manufactured or mobile home sites on a short-term or long-term basis, said spaces being situated and configured similar to individual lots.

Any single contiguous tract of land under one ownership, uninterrupted by streets, alleys or any other public space, other than a Manufactured Home Mini-Park, where accommodations are provided for non-transient manufactured or mobile home use.

The offering for sale, storage, or display of Manufactured Housing units on a parcel of land, but excluding the use of such facilities as dwellings either on a temporary or permanent basis.

Per Section 1201.003 of the State of Texas Occupations Code, as may be amended:

An establishment engaged in manufacturing, assembly, fabrication, packaging or other industrial processing of products primarily from extracted/raw materials or the bulk storage and handling of such products and materials, or an industrial establishment having potential to produce noise, dust, glare, odors or vibration beyond its property line.

A group of offices for one or more physicians, surgeons, chiropractors or dentists, engaged in treating the sick or injured, but not including rooms for the abiding of patients.

The development of a tract of land or building or structure with two or more different uses, such as, but not limited to, residential, office, retail, public, entertainment, and recreational.

An area designed to accommodate two or more mobile food vendors offering food and/or beverages for sale to the public, functioning as a single business and as the primary use of the property.

A single-family dwelling in a developing subdivision located on a legal lot of record that is limited to temporary use as a sales office for the subdivision and to provide an example of the dwellings which have been built or which are proposed to be built in the same subdivision.

A company using trucks or other heavy load vehicles to transport goods, equipment and similar products. Includes companies that move residential or commercial belongings.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and rebuilding electrical and electronic equipment for motor vehicles and internal combustion engines. This would include alternators and generators, ignition wiring harness, coils and ignition, instrument control panels, distributors' spark plugs, electrical ignition cable sets, windshield washer pumps, and generators.

An industry engaged in manufacturing motor vehicle engines and gasoline motor vehicle engine parts such as carburetors, pistons, piston rings and valves. Also includes the manufacture of motor vehicle steering mechanisms and suspension, brake systems, transmissions and power train parts, air conditioning systems and compressors, as well as vehicle stampings such as fenders, tops, trim and molding.

A specialized theater for showing movies or motion pictures.

A commercial printing operation involving a process that is considered printing, imprinting, reproducing, or duplicating images and using printing methods including, but not limited to, offset printing, lithography, web offset, flexographic, and screen process printing.

A lot that does not meet the current requirements of this Zoning Ordinance, but that was in conformance with the standards in place at the time of its inception.

A structure that does not meet the current requirements of this Zoning Ordinance, but that was in conformance with the standards in place at the time of its inception.

A use of land that does not meet the current requirements of this Zoning Ordinance, but that was in conformance with the standards in place at the time of its inception.

The term Nonconformities is a general term used to refer to Nonconforming Uses, Nonconforming Structures and Nonconforming Lots.

Any use other than a residential use.

The term "Nonresidential Zoning Districts" means a zoning district as listed a nonresidential zoning district within Table 1: Zoning Districts.

An establishment for the cultivation and propagation, display, storage, and sale (retail and wholesale) of large plants, shrubs, trees, and other materials used in indoor or outdoor plantings, and the contracting for installation or maintenance of landscape material as an accessory use. Outdoor display and storage is included.

A retail business for the display and sale of trees, shrubs, flowers, ornamental plants, seeds, garden and lawn supplies, and other materials used in indoor and outdoor planting, without outside storage or display.

A room or group of rooms used for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service industry, or government.

An area or portion of land, either landscaped or essentially unimproved and which is used to meet recreational or spatial needs, or to protect water, air, or plant areas.

An individual who works out of a small shop and customers are invited to sit with the reader and supposedly reveal future events by "reading" the customer's palm or through the reading and interpretation of Tarot Cards.

An open recreational facility or park owned and operated by a public agency such as the City, the school district, or private association, and available to the general public.

An open area or place, other than a street or alley, used for temporary parking of more than four self-propelled vehicles and available for public use, whether free, for compensation or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

Space or garage space reserved exclusively for the parking of a vehicle.

Within the Right-of-Way, the area between the property line and the nearest curb or edge of the roadway (if no curb exists.) See Figure 1: Example of a Parkway for visual depiction of a parkway.

An establishment that lends or advances money or other things for profit on the pledge and possession of personal property, or other valuable things, other than securities or written or printed evidences of indebtedness, or, that deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable things on condition of selling the same back to the seller at a stipulated price.

Publicly or privately operated facility for the detention, confinement, treatment or rehabilitation of persons arrested or convicted for the violation of civil or criminal law. Such facilities include an adult detention center, juvenile delinquency center, jail, prison, and halfway house.

A permanent, non-dwelling building or portion of a building where colored pigment is inserted into the skin for cosmetic purposes in accordance with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations.

Establishments primarily engaged in providing services generally involving the care of the person or apparel including, but not limited to, barber and beauty shops, dressmaking, shoe shining, dry-cleaning and laundry pick-up stations, tailor or seamstress, and health clubs.

A retail sales establishment primarily involved in the sale of pet supplies or the sale or adoption of domestic animals, such as dogs, cats, fish, birds, and reptiles, excluding exotic animals and farm animals such as horses, goats, sheep, and poultry.

An outdoor area where storage of petroleum is allowed (tank farm).

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing biological and medicinal products; (2) processing (i.e., grading, grinding, and milling) botanical drugs and herbs; (3) isolating active medicinal principals from botanical drugs and herbs; and (4) manufacturing pharmaceutical products intended for internal and external consumption in such forms as ampoules, tablets, capsules, vials, ointments, powders, solutions, and suspensions.

A shop or a store wherein prescription medicines may be obtained during all operating hours wherein primarily medicine and medical supplies are offered for sale.

Work space for one or more photographers, artists or artisans, including the accessory sale of art produced on the premises.

The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City.

The person(s) so designated by the City to provide oversight for and have responsibility of the City's planning and development related duties. This term shall also include any designee of the Planning Division Manager. Also, this term shall be inclusive of any future variations of the term, such as "Planning Director" or "Zoning Administrator."

The making of goods by processing plastics materials or raw rubber, with dust and fume control.

A map or chart of the subdivision, lot or tract of land that is filed in the County plat records.

An athletic field or stadium owned and operated by a public agency for the general public including a baseball field, football field or stadium.

Establishments primarily engaged in retail sales of plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning equipment, without warehouse facilities, includes storage for ordinary repair but no materials for contracting work.

Protection centers operated by a governmental agency, including administrative offices, storage of equipment, temporary detention facilities, and the open or enclosed parking of safety vehicles; excluding, however, correctional institutions.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing polystyrene foam products.

The primary or predominant use of any lot or building.

A non-public utility requiring special facilities in residential areas or on public property such as electricity, natural gas, or telecommunications not customarily provided by the municipality or public utilities. All radiating equipment must comply with current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or its successor, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or its successor, Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) or its successor, and all other applicable State and Federal regulatory agency requirements and guidelines for human safety.

Progress towards completion of the project shall include any one of the following:

Any Improvement, facility or service together with its associated public site, Right-of-Way or easement necessary to provide transportation, storm drainage, public or private utilities, parks or recreational, energy or similar essential public services and facilities, for which the City or other government authority ultimately assumes the responsibility for maintenance, operation or ownership.

Establishments primarily engaged in the provision of broadcasting and other information relay services accomplished through the use of electronic and telephonic mechanisms. Excluded are facilities classified as major utility services or broadcasting or communication towers.

A group of drawings or plans that depicts the final configuration of the installed or constructed improvements of a development, improvements that have been verified by the contractor as their installation or construction occurs during development. The Record Drawings shall reflect the Construction Plans (or working drawings) used, corrected, or clarified in the field.

A structure that meets building code standards to be freestanding and is used to sell to and serve to drive through and walk-up customers prepackaged, foods and beverages from a drive through window for off-premises consumption and that provides no indoor or outdoor seating.

A place of worship and religious training of recognized religions, including the on-site housing of ministers, rabbis, priests, nuns, Islamic religious leaders, and similar staff personnel.

A street that is intended primarily to serve traffic within a neighborhood or limited residential district and that is used primarily for access to abutting properties.

Residential use means use of a structure as a residence.

Residential district means a single-family, duplex, townhouse, multiple-family or mobile home zoning district as defined in the zoning ordinance, see Table 1: Zoning Districts for a list of districts.

An establishment, with drive-through window or curb service, where food and/or drink are prepared and consumed primarily on the premises.

An establishment, without drive-through window or curb service, where food and/or drink are prepared and consumed primarily on the premises.

An establishment engaged in the selling of goods and merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods.

A retail store that sells mainly tobacco products. This business may also sell tobacco accessories such as lighters, matches, cigarette holders and devices used to preserve tobacco, cigars or cigarettes, which are incidental to the sale of tobacco products.

A non-building, structural wall supporting soil loads and live and dead surcharge loads to the soil, such as additional soil, structures and vehicles.

Any age restricted housing development that may be in any housing form, including detached and attached dwelling units, apartments, and residences, offering private and semiprivate rooms and designed to provide meals and nursing care.

A public gathering place for rodeo activities in which there are performances of riders with horses and generally involving cattle. The area may involve various cattle pens, barns or shelters. Parking generally would involve double drive-through spaces for participants with trucks pulling horse trailers and standard parking for spectators.

Career schools including programs such as dental assisting, pharmacy technician, nurse aide, veterinary assistant, etc.

Includes private school facilities providing pre-K through 12 education (Pre-kindergarten, Kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high schools).

Includes public school facilities providing pre-K through 12 education (Pre-kindergarten, Kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high schools).

A facility that includes laboratories and experimental equipment for medical testing, scientific testing, prototype design and development, and product testing. Any facility that is determined by Health, Fire, or Building officials to be a hazard or nuisance to adjacent property or the community at large due to the possible emission of excessive smoke, noise, gas, fumes, dust, odor, or vibration, or the danger of fire, explosion, or radiation is not included in this category.

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing or modifying clothing.

A line within a lot, parallel to and measured from a corresponding lot line, establishing the minimum required yard and governing the placement of structures and uses on the lot.

An establishment with the principal business of repairing shoes.

A Site Plan is a detailed, scaled drawing of all surface improvements, structures, and utilities proposed for development and is associated with the zoning ordinance.

A shop for the repair of lawnmowers, chainsaws, lawn equipment, and other small engine equipment and machinery.

A wind energy conversion system consisting of a wind turbine, a tower and associated control or conversion electronics that will be used to reduce on-site consumption of utility power.

A building or facility for refining or processing oil or a chemical plant for producing chemical products or processing of those products.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing and packaging soap and other cleaning compounds, surface active agents, and textile and leather finishing agents used to reduce tension or speed the drying process.

A business that provides therapeutic and personal grooming services, including haircuts and styling, waxing, facial treatments, body therapies (massage and massage therapy), and nail treatments by providers licensed by the State of Texas.

The term "Special Zoning Districts" means a zoning district as listed a special zoning district within Table 1: Zoning Districts.

A stable and related facilities, including an open pasture, where horses are quartered for owners.

Storefronts are defined as the part of the building that fills the structural bay on the front façade at ground level.

That portion of a building included between the upper surface of a floor and the upper surface of the floor or roof next above. It is measured as the vertical distance from top to top of two successive tiers of beams or finished floor surfaces and, for the topmost story, from the top of the floor finish to the top of the ceiling joists or, where there is not a ceiling, to the top of the roof rafters.

A public Right-of-Way that provides vehicular traffic access to adjacent lands or for the movement of through traffic.

Any change in any supporting member of a building, such as a bearing wall, column, partition, beam, or girder, or a change in the pitch or height of the roof.

Anything constructed or erected that requires location on the ground, or attached to something having a location on the ground, including, but not limited to, advertising signs, billboards and poster panels, but exclusive of customary fences or boundary of retaining walls, sidewalks and curbs.

A dwelling unit or sleeping unit in which a significant portion of the space includes a nonresidential use that is operated by the tenant.

The adopted subdivision regulations of the City. (See Chapter 11-2 of the Midland Municipal Code, as may be amended.)

See Specific Use Designation definition and Section 11-1-9.07 Specific Use Designation (SUDs).

A licensed State Land Surveyor or a Registered Public Surveyor, as authorized by the State to practice the profession of surveying.

A permanent, non-dwelling building or portion of a building where scarring or inserting a pigment of a design or artistic image under the skin using needles, scalpels, or other related equipment is performed in accordance with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations.

An establishment whose principal business is the practice of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

A building used exclusively for the transmission and exchange of telephone messages, but the term shall not include wireless service towers.

Establishments primarily engaged in finishing of textiles, fabrics, and apparel, with dust and odor controls.

See Arterial Street.

A shop where flat sheets of metal are shaped into three-dimensional objects and soldered, brazed or welded.

A portable dwelling unit designed to move on wheels from location to location by automobile or truck.

Any premises, including train or bus stations, for the loading and unloading of passengers and the temporary parking of transit vehicles between routes or during stopovers and excluding overnight parking and storage of transit vehicles.

The plan that guides the development of adequate circulation within the City, and connects the City street system to regional traffic carriers. Also referred to as the Thoroughfare Plan.

The display, storage, sale, leasing, or rental of new or used panel trucks, vans, trailers, recreational vehicles, or buses in operable condition.

An accessory building housing electronic and communication equipment as an associated and permitted part of a wireless communication system.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing plastics foam products

Facilities, including subsidiary stations that serve to distribute, transmit, transform, or reduce the pressure of gas, water, or electric current, including, but not limited to, electrical transmission lines, gas transmission lines, and metering stations.

See Easement (Definition # 122).

A vacation travel trailer is a vehicular portable structure designed for a temporary or short-term occupancy for travel, recreational or vacation uses. Such vehicles shall include travel trailers, converted buses, tent trailers, recreational vehicles, motor homes or similar devices used for temporary portable housing.

A Vacation Travel Trailer Park is any tract of land under single ownership and where accommodation is provided for transient trailer use for a maximum of seven days. See Section 11-1-4.04.A.2 Manufactured Home Mini-Park, Manufactured Home Park, and Vacation Travel Trailer Park Standards for more information.

An establishment where animals and pets are admitted for examination and medical treatment.

Facilities characterized by extensive warehousing, frequent heavy trucking activity, Outside Storage of material, or nuisances such as dust, noise, and odors, but not involved in manufacturing or production.

A building, facility, room, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased or otherwise made available to any person or group for a private event function, that is not open to the general public, whether or not a fee is charged.

An establishment that holds meetings for its membership, counsels, or sells products to encourage the personal weight loss of individuals.

An establishment or place of business primarily engaged in selling or distributing merchandise to the general public, to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business users, and to other wholesalers.

A property or building where wildlife animals are kept for the purpose of undergoing rehabilitation.

An establishment where wine is made.

Antenna support structures for mobile and land based telecommunication facilities, whip antennas, panel antennas, microwave dishes and receive-only satellite dishes, cell enhancers and related equipment for wireless transmission from a sender to one or more receivers, such as for mobile cellular telephones, mobile radio systems facilities, commercial mobile radio service and radio or television (commercial only) broadcasting towers and transmitting stations. This definition is inclusive of the placement of the above-referenced equipment on a monopole tower, a steel lattice tower, guyed steel lattice tower and any communication tower which does or does not utilize guy wire support in addition to existing buildings or other independent support structures. This system shall also allow as one of its components an unmanned equipment shelter.

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing window and door units, sash, window and door frames, and doors from wood or wood clad with metal or plastics.

A yard or building where automobiles or machinery are stored, dismantled and offered for sale as whole units, as salvaged parts or as processed metal.

A yard across the full width of a lot extending from the front line of the main building to the front property line of the lot.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot and measured between the rear property line of the lot and rear line of the main building, except that area included in the side yard as defined below.

A yard between the building and the side property line of the lot and extending from the front yard to the required minimum rear yard.

The adopted Zoning Ordinance of the City, as may be amended in the future, and may be referred as "the Zoning Ordinance."